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[PorkChop]

As far as I know...

Vodou was set up by a Haynes builder (Matt, was his username Airhead?) who adapted the Sierra spec chassis to take the MX5 running gear. The rear diff area was quite different from the original Sierra design. He set up Vodou, Mark Bean was involved with the bodywork, Phil (Talon) was licensed (I believe) to supply chassis.

Matt published his chassis plans, but apart from a few chassis being made, it all went very, very quiet and has remained so.

HandyAndy used to be part of Saturn with Andy Hugill (Spud), then sort of left. However, he still did the flat packs for Saturn. When I bought my Saturn MX5 flat pack, I picked it up from HandyAndy's house (I seem to remember taking some other bits over to him from Spud at the same time ).

Anyway, Saturn, adapted the Sierra chassis for the MX5 gear. The front section of the chassis is as per the Sierra spec, the wishbones were altered to take the MX5 upright. The rear section was kept as close to the Sierra spec as possible but to accomodate the winged MX5 diff casing. This caused a redesign of the rear wishbones. The plans (or the modifications required to the Sierra spec chassis) are freely available.

The Saturn stuff ended up at Gillham Online. I noticed in this month's Complete Kit Car that Dan is planning to market more stuff over the coming months for the Roadster, I assume this will incorporate both Sierra and MX5 based parts.

Phil (Talon) has recently announced that he is doing his own MX5 version, the TMXR, which is probably the closest to the Sierra spec chassis. You will need a different rear diff over, which Phil produces. The MX5 upright wishbones, I believe, will fit on a completely Sierra spec chassis. I'm sure Phil will correct me if I'm wrong.

HTH